Published now by Bobit Business Media, NAILS was founded as a response to a burgeoning new market of nail salons popping up in Southern California. The first issue published in February 1983 and was distributed at the Long Beach Hairdressers Guild Show to about 5,000 nail techs.

You might have thought award season was over, but for us in the publishing industry it has just begun. Every year the Western Publishing Association calls for entries for print, web, and digital publications, tabloids,